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It's So Magic Hardcover – September 6, 2022

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“Lynda Barry’s Ernie Pook’s Comeek... made the world look wild, ugly, joyful, and mysterious.”?―The New Yorker

Maybonne Mullen is “riding on a bummer” according to her little sister Marlys. As much as teenage Maybonne prays and tries she just can’t connect to the magic of living. How can she when there’s so much upheaval at home and school, not to mention the world at large? And yet Marlys always seems able to tap into it.

In It’s So Magic, the Mullen family dynamics are in flux. Uncle John makes a brief return to town to the delight of the girls. Freddy is finally reunited with his sisters. Marlys falls in love for the first time. And after they finally settle into a routine at their grandmother’s the Mullen siblings’ mother might be ready to take them back in. With war in the background and precarious parental support, the siblings long for peace, finding it in the small things like grocery store turkey drawing contests and fishing trips.

Narrated by Maybonne, Marlys, and Freddy, It’s So Magic captures Lynda Barry’s unparalleled ability to depict the magic of youth experiencing firsts in a world that contains as much humour as it does hardship.

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    It's So Magic
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    128 pages
  3. Language
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    September 6, 2022
  6. Reading age
    14 years and up
  7. Dimensions
    6.3 x 0.7 x 9.85 inches
  8. ISBN-10
    1770466215
  9. ISBN-13
    978-1770466210
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“Barry captures the voice of a young person so stunningly brilliantly.” ―Autrostraddle

“Barry [explores] the strange geometries of childhood―that moment when someone can simultaneously be friend, rival, and crush.” ―The Guardian

About the Author

Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher and found that they are very much alike. She lives in Wisconsin, where she is an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Creativity at the University of Wisconsin Madison. In 2019, she received the “Genius grant” from the MacArthurs Fellows program.

In addition to What It Is, Barry has written four bestselling and acclaimed creative how-to graphic novels, What It Is; Picture This; Syllabus: Notes From an Accidental Professor; and Making Comics. Her seminal comic strip, Ernie Pook's Comeek, features Marlys, Maybonne, and Freddie and was collected into The! Greatest! of! Marlys!, The Freddie Stories, Come Over Come Over, My Perfect Life, and It’s So Magic. Her other books include One! Hundred! Demons!, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel, and The Good Times are Killing Me.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Drawn and Quarterly (September 6, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1770466215
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1770466210
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 0.7 x 9.85 inches
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Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator and teacher and found they are very much alike. She is the inimitable creator behind the seminal comic strip that was syndicated scross North America in alternative weeklies for two decades, Ernie Pook's Comeek featuring the incomparable Marlys and Freddy, as well as the books One! Hundred! Demons!, The! Greatest! of! Marlys!, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel, Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies!, The Good Times are Killing Me which was adapted as an off-Broadway play and won the Washington State Governor's Award. Her bestselling and acclaimed creative writing-how to-graphic novel for Drawn & Quarterly, What It Is, won the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Graphic Novel and R.R. Donnelly Award for highest literary achievement by a Wisconsin author. D+Q plans to publish a multivolume collection of Ernie Pook’s Comeek, Barry’s next prose novel, and the follow up and creative drawing companion to What It Is, November 2010’s Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book.

Born in Wisconsin in 1956, Lynda studied at Evergreen State College.

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Lisa Loving
5.0 out of 5 stars It’s so, so, so magic!
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2022
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I’ve been waiting for this collection to come out and it’s finally here! So glad to have Marlys and Maybonne back in my life.
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A. Hollar
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2017
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I grew up with Lynda Barry's work and she is by far my favorite comic artist.
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Ellen L. Horr
5.0 out of 5 stars Magic is Magic
Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2014
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Lynda Barry, as always, is Da Bomb, and this is a classic collection.
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smalldogs
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2014
Perfect! Lynda Barry is a genius.
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Amanda Bradley
5.0 out of 5 stars Namaste Leenda Namaste!!
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2004
OK, here's the deal, if you wanna get down with your bad self and figure out if your childhood really did suck, read any or all of Lynda Barry's books. Not only will she prove to you that it did suck, but she will also show you that everybody else's childhood sucked too! However, she will also demonstrate to you, in a very amusing way, that we were all, mostly, too dumb to let it get in the way or really bother us. In fact, many of us will relive the pain and pleasure through Lynda's therapy and will actually enjoy it.
So, do yourself a favour and read all her stuff. And if you don't get her books, then, not only did your childhood suck but your adulthood is even worse! Yolo tendo! Namaste Leenda Namaste!!!!
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J. Gillot
5.0 out of 5 stars I loved this book and here's why...
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 1997
This super duper book is a compilation of Lynda Barry's comics about two weird sisters named Marlys and Maybonne. Some sections are told through older sister Maybonne's diary and they usually involve the dramas of junior high, like moving back to your old school and finding out that your best friend has told everyone that you've become a lesbian slut. My favorite sections are the ones told through Marlys' eyes. She writes book reports about bats, and draws her own comics about her sister's favorite things. Marlys' drawings of people and the caption bubbles coming out of their mouths are so creative and authentically first graderish.
Why oh why is this book out of print? I checked it out of my library, but maybe we can start a revolution and bring it back.
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Rebecca Beebe
5.0 out of 5 stars I Love Lynda Barry!
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2000
This is an absolutely amazing work. If you can get your hands on it it is definately worth the effort. I first read it a few years ago and must have read it about six times since then.
It deals with love, friends, family, homosexuality, and life in general. I found it one of the most true and beautiful peices I've ever read.
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Veronica Rusnak
4.0 out of 5 stars Lynda Barry is funk queen of the galaxy
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2001
Lynda Barry saved my life with Ernie Pook's Comeek when I lived in Washington DC, and in return I feel obligated to purchase every book she's ever written. Not that that's an awful thing. The continuing saga of Marlys and Maybonne keeps me in tears, both from laughter and from sadness. The only reason this only gets four instead of five stars is that I'm starting to get a little burned out on them. Barry is so precise in tales of growing up, she's in a league with Groening, Judge, et al, in perfectly capturing, in a crude drawing, such common elements to our childhood as cereal boxes, bad haricuts, and boys who smoke. I highly recommend any Lynda Barry collection, and this chapter does not disappoint.
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